Why do people do that?
You need to whisper them something and you can only do it if you click on them.
Some people really want a name, but it may be in use already, so they use alt codes to make their names look the same, but unique as far as the game is concerned. It would have been great if Blizz had allowed surnames so that the combination of your first and last name would have been unique and let people use whatever name they wanted and have āfamiliesā of characters.
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Because they can.
Itās something I dislike, but itās allowed and supported by Blizzard, so people will do it.
EDIT: I suspect it may actually have to do with supporting Unicode, and other languages for other clients of the game. Well, I couldnāt create a character named ģė¦¬ķø, so idkā¦ maybe itās because Blizzard likes troll names.
Because they lack any semblance of creativity.
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Hello, it is I, Ćsmongold, my brother Ć smongold, and our special cousin Ć¢smĆngĆ“ād.
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Because this was the same name that my druid had back in BC when I started the game. It was not available so I put an alt code at the end of my name because itās not as hard to find me if itās at the end in my mind.
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Surprised I havenāt seen a ÅÄÄĆøÄ¾Ä Å yet tbh
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They hate being invited to join groups/guilds.
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I do it because it cuts down on random whispers.
Added bonus is that my name is almost never taken.
Random annoying whispers will just do a /who, click on the name and /whisper that way.
It saves you nothing
On the other hand, useful whispers get lost, random example:
Youāre in a group with someone, you end the quest, you part and he wants to tell you something he forgot, something informative, he canāt because he can no longer click on you.
Just an example.
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The very determined people will always find a way. It does cut down on the other random stuff though, so good enough for low effort.
Interestingly hunters appear to be able to name their pets using such symbols, Iāve seen a couple on Westfall where the petās name is clearly a language such as Chinese, Japanese or similar.
The word youāre looking for is glyphs. Those are unicode characters that range from ordinary stuff on an English keyboard to characters from scripts around the world.
They are allowed because some peopleās names need them, especially ones that are in or come from other languages. However, they do make things difficult for people who use English or languages that donāt use that particular glyph.
This sounds like an opinion.
Many times itās because they have their client set to another language other than English. The pet names are in that language so you might get the name ācatā to be whatever symbol it is in Mandarin or whatever. The same thing goes for warlock minion names.
And in that case (the case of them using a different language client), the same would go for the names of items they they click insert into chat with you, though if you click the Chinese [or whatever language] name, youāll see the English language version, because youāre using an English language client.
Iāve played on other regions using an English language client, but not using other language clients in English language regions.
Erm no, people do have non-English symbols and diacriticals in their names. For example, MoliĆØre.
I donāt care about pets.
Special symbols made it impossible to whisper to people for things like warning them about a horde following them, and other cases that now escape my memory, and I couldnāt do it because they went too far or behind some obstacle and couldnāt /whisper.
Itās really annoying.
OK, and many people have names that are not English, such as Chinese people. You cannot make a character name using Chinese characters, using the English client, but you can use alt-characters.
I would be very skeptical that your opinion is an accurate reality.
OMG clicking on a name is so hard?!?! What shall we do but cry on the internets about it
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